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Huron Expositor, 2003-12-03, Page 13School News Local senior upset Liberals revoke education tax break By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor An Egmondville woman is angry that she won't be getting her $184.25 in education taxes back, now that the Liberals have taken over from the Conservative provincial government. "It's a real dirty trick. I've always thought seniors should be exempt from education taxes, especially since I never had children," says Dorothy Bassett. Bassett, who applied for the rebate after the Conservative government passed its bill to exempt seniors from the education portion of their property The TSC STORES Stores SALES FLYER was inadvertently delivered in the SuperSaver bag one week early. We sincerely apologize for the confusion to TSC Stores, TSC shoppers and readers. Please look for TSC Stores Flyer in the FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 ISSUE of the SuperSaver. taxes a few days before the provincial election, received a phone call the day after the election telling her that her application was put on hold. "I don't think it's right to pass a bill and then cancel it," she says. "A lot of seniors must be upset about this." Recently -elected MPP for Huron -Bruce, Carol Mitchell, says she hasn't heard from any local seniors who are upset about the Liberal government's plans to revoke the bill that would have given seniors a tax break. "We (the provincial Liberals) were quite up- front about it in our election platform. When you think about the $5.6 billion deficit we were left with, we sure couldn't have afforded that tax break for seniors on top of it," she says. Mitchell says that while the bill was passed by the Conservatives and applications for the refund were received, the process had not progressed enough to actually give anyone a refund. 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Using students as cast members, Santo Cervello, of Toronto, played several characters as well as Scrooge. At SPS, above, Jake Harrison played Tiny Tim while at left, Scrooge harangues Bob Crachett, played by Jeffrey Denham. Below, SPS students David Theissen, Chelsea Browner, Nicole Morey, lyndsay Dolmage and Tayor Bennewies play carollers in the production. Board welcomes new trustees By Stew Slater Special to The Huron Expositor The 2000-03 term for the Avon Maitland District School Board drew to a close Tuesday, Nov. 25, with trustees exchanging goodwill and good wishes for those who are moving on, those who are coming to the table for the first tirnc, and those who remain. The goodwill even extended as far as maverick Huron East/Centre representative Charles Smith, who sparred often with several of his counterparts. Smith was acclaimed to a position on the board in 2000, after leading a successful challenge of a 1999 decision to close Seaforth District High School. He's now leaving, having failed in a bid to prevent the closure from eventually taking place in 2002, but doggedly challenging the board -- to varying degrees of success -- on other issues over the past three years. North Perth trustee Don Brillinger, who's leaving to join municipal politics, almost always lined up on the opposite side of those issues as Smith. But Nov. 25, Brillinger credited the Seaforth industrial owner for joining the board for the principle of representing the people of his area, and for being a keen -eyed "numbers man." Board chair Mcg Westley, who was re-elected as one of two Stratford trustees in the Nov. 10 municipal election. admitted she and Smith "rarely saw eye to eye and had many heated debates. "But you served with integrity," she told Smith, adding "you often played -- or rather, were the devil's advocate, and that improved the effectiveness of our decision-making process." Smith kept his comments to a minimum, choosing only to thank Brillinger, and joking with Westley that he "appreciated the promotion from 'the devil,' to the 'devil's advocate." Smith's replacement. former Holmesville school council chair Shelley Kaastra, was in the audience at the meeting, as she has been faithfully twice per month for about two years. Making her first appearance was the new North Perth trustee, Jenny Versteeg. Both Smith and Brillinger took time to give credit to their replacements. The three other new trustees are Emily Milley in Northwest Huron, Doug Pratley in Stratford, and Tina Traschel in Perth East. The outgoing Perth East trustee, former chair Wendy Anderson, received the most tributes from fellow trustees. Brillinger described her as "a mentor," while Westley described her decision not to seek re-election as "a great loss to the board." "I believe you have had a significant effect on the culture of the board," Westley told Anderson, predicting her influence will live on. Offering her final comments as a trustee, Anderson recalled getting involved in education just as the province's system began facing funding cuts. She admitted not all of her experiences were positive, but "I guess I'm coming out at the end of nine years a stronger person than when I went in." Anderson offered some tips for incoming trustees, concluding that "you've all been elected to represent different areas of the district, but you all have responsibilities for the whole board." The goodwill, however, didn't extend as far as outgoing one -term trustee Butch Desjardine. Desjardine effectively left the people of Northwest Huron without representation on the board by being absent from his third straight meeting. Over the past two years, he has missed two straight meetings on a couple of occasions, but it wasn't until Nov. 25 that his absentia from a third straight meeting triggered an automatic ejection under the pmvince's Education Act.